Acting Director : Peter Longden

Agronomy, physiology, pest and disease control, and molecular biology of sugar beet. Strong field-based research supported by long-term strategic laboratory programmes covering aspects of :

crop production

• Factors affecting fertilizer use efficency by the sugar-beet crop
• Analysis of crop canopy efficiency
• Improved biotransformation system for sugar beet
• Application of mathematical models in sugar-beet research and yield forecasting
• Impurities within roots
• True seed size
• Elucidating and manipulating bolting and flowering mechanisms in sugar beet
• Effects of climate change on sugar beet / weed competition
• Sugar-beet storage studies

crop protection

• Biocontrol of seedling diseases
• Strategies for pest control in sugar beet
• Growth of diseased crops
• Fate and metabolism of pesticides applied to sugar beet
• Effect of changing crop husbandry on pests and diseases of sugar beet
• Epidemiological studies of the interaction between sugar beet yellowing viruses, their vectors and hosts
• Evaluating sugar beet resistance to yellowing viruses
• Modelling/forecasting rhizomania
• Evaluation of rhizomania resistance
• Polymyxa resistance

Considerable efforts are made to ensure effective technology transfer of research findings to the sugar beet producers and processor

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For more information about the activities of IACR please contact Susannah Bolton (susannah.bolton@bbsrc.ac.uk).

[Document last modified on Thursday, 14 December 1995]